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Mother Country

By Libby Purves

Mother Country

By Libby Purves

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A funny, touching, sometimes profound story about love, memory, and the loss of illusions.Even her closest friend agreed that Shark Grayson wasn't fit to keep her baby. A heroin addict, living in a sordid London squat, she was already close to death when her American lover took charge of the situation by force, and carried off the baby Alexander to give him a loving home in the Mid-West and an affluent future. But now Alex is twenty-seven, orphaned again and afflicted by a sense of lost roots and a romantic vision of England. A business trip provides the chance to go and trace his unknown relatives. He finds friendship; encounters some startlingly predatory girls; and confronts mystery in the eccentric alternative health centre run by the austere Julia. He discovers that while some British people are very hard indeed to get along with, some turn out to be, after all, more closely akin to him than he could ever have imagined.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
310
Release Date:
2004-10-31
Publication Date:
2004-10-31
Publisher:
Hodder Paperback
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:
0340826088
Weight:
181 g
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